We spend £6,000 a year on those little luxuries

BRITISH households typically spent £5,850 over the last year on lifestyle essentials such as holidays, takeaways and haircuts, says a new survey.

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BRITISH households typically spent £5,850 over the last year on lifestyle essentials such as holidays, takeaways and haircuts, says a new survey.

Despite feeling the squeeze from the rising cost of living, LV found that Britons still managed to spend £149 billion on such little luxuries, up £5.7 billion on the previous year.

The research found the lifestyle essentials had an overall inflation rate of 3.6% in the 12 months to August 2011, more than the increase in the nation’s pay packets of 2.9% over the same period.

More than three-quarters (77%) of those surveyed are making financial cutbacks to afford the little treats which they deem as important.

Nearly half (47%) said they were buying cheaper food or food that was not a well-known brand, while a third take their own lunch to work. Just over one in 10 take their coffee or tea to work in a flask.

HOW British households spent their money in the 12 months to August 2011: